diff --git a/.ci/bin/version-setup.sh b/.ci/bin/version-setup.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..5f479a8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.ci/bin/version-setup.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+raw_version="$(cat klippy/.version)"
+declare -a versontags
+IFS="-" read -r -a versiontags <<<"$raw_version"
+# TODO: Handle a single tag, for actual release tags
+py_version="${versiontags[0]}-dev${versiontags[1]}+git.${versiontags[2]}"
+echo "$py_version" > ".py_version"
diff --git a/.github/workflows/pyproject-build.yml b/.github/workflows/pyproject-build.yml
index f83ceed..efc19f1 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pyproject-build.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pyproject-build.yml
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ jobs:
         if [ -f requirements.txt ]; then pip install -r requirements.txt; fi
     - name: Prepare to build
       run: |
-        ./version-setup.sh
+        .ci/bin/version-setup.sh
     - name: Build sdist
       run: |
         python -m build --sdist
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..94387c6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+.pyversion